Expand disk or add new disk to big-ip VE
Hey We have a VMWare 5.1 environment with big-ip VE and I want to expand the disk its running on due to new apps I want to run on it but dont have the diskspace. Have tried to expand the disk with adding disk space and expanding the disk with basic linux commands, we cannot get that to work and I cannot really find much information about this. I would appreciate if someone could point me to a solution. Thank you1.4KViews0likes6CommentsLogging the request coming to a Virtual Server
Hi Everyone, I want to record each and every hit on my Virtual Server. It want the hit log to be sent to my Syslog server. I have configured the Syslog IP under the "Remote Logging" configuration in the GUI. But I am not getting the logs of Remote IP addresses connecting to my Virtual Servers. Have I missed any configuration? Do I need to configure anything under the virtual server configuration?? Need some quick response pls.. Regards,b1.4KViews0likes10Commentsreverse proxy on F5
Hello we have setup in which the reverse proxy is currently configured on the internal server . We were trying to find if we can move the reverse proxy from the internal server to F5 Load balancer . can we do that if any one can share the process will be helpful1.1KViews0likes11Commentshttp and https monitors
Hello guys, My first question is what is the difference between http and https monitor? And can I use these monitors for any port or are there specific ports I need to use? For example- for many of tasks for 8443 monitor I use https monitor, so does that mean when the port is 8080 then I need to use http monitor? But I haven't seen anybody using http monitor so far. Please put some light on my question guys, I am sorry for silly question like this. Thank you in advance.. R999Views0likes3CommentsASM Event log with local storage
Hi all, May you help me the way to extend local data storage volume for ASM Event logs? I have been using default profile named "Log illegal requests" in TMOS 11.6, and I don't have remote storage now. Because I want to view event logs more than 01 day period, during auditing time, but the older event logs were deleted. I have researched more information about the local data storage for ASM event log, but I can't find the solution. Could anyone help me? and please correct to me if I have any wrong knowledge. Hope your response. Best regards, Loan.899Views0likes8CommentsARX configuration/network layout
Hi guys, We have a pair of ARX2000's that I'm getting ready to setup. I want to make sure I set them up properly. The following is how we're planning on configuring the ARX's 5 ports set up in an LACP single arm aggregation to allow for a single link loss (4 ports sending traffic and one for parity). It will reside in our vlan 32, and use vlan tagging. All client networks are route-able to that network. We'll have another 5 ports set up in a similar aggregation cabled into our redundant core switch - with the expectation that this would only ever be used if we lost the primary core switch. Not entirely sure how to set the arx to make sure traffic doesn't send on the 2nd set of 5 interfaces. Our network engineers say that we can use spanning tree for this. The last 2 ports will be set up for in-band management. (are these what will handle heartbeat traffic as well??) Is this something that sounds do-able? I'm coming at this from a unix/storage perspective and not so confident on the network layout perspective. Cheers, -Derek823Views0likes10CommentsVCMP space disk allocation explanations
Hello, Can please someone help me to understand the disk allocation of this VCMP system? 1/ Total physical disk space is : 400GB according to fdisk: [root@XXX:Active:Standalone] config fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 48641 390707808 8e Linux LVM 2/ Guests vdisks use 100G of lvm space but... (so you can guess 500GB used... :/) [root@XXX:Active:Standalone] config ls -lh /shared/vmdisks/ total 23G drwx------ 2 root root 16K Apr 8 16:45 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100G Jun 23 11:45 GUEST1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 22 15:25 GUEST1.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100G Jun 23 11:45 GUEST2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 22 15:25 GUEST2.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100G Jun 23 11:45 GUEST3.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 22 15:25 GUEST3.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100G Jun 23 11:45 GUEST4.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 22 15:28 GUEST4.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100G Jun 23 11:45 GUEST5.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 22 15:25 GUEST5.info 3/ ... but the physical space usage is as below: [root@XXX:Active:Standalone] config tmsh show vcmp virtual-disk detail -------------------------------------------------------- Sys::Vcmp::VirtualDisk Name Operating System Status Disk Use (bytes) -------------------------------------------------------- GUEST1.img tmos in-use 4.6G GUEST2.img tmos in-use 4.4G GUEST3.img tmos in-use 4.5G GUEST4.img tmos in-use 4.3G GUEST5.img tmos in-use 4.5G 4/ and indeed pysically this matches (4.6 + 4.4 + 4.5 + 4.3 + 4.5 = 23 GB) and confirmed with command du: [root@XXX:Active:Standalone] config du -hs /shared/vmdisks/ 23G /shared/vmdisks/ 5/ But when I run command df I can't summ the disk space to reach 400GB: [root@XXX:Active:Standalone] config df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.3.root 380M 212M 149M 59% / /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.3._config 3.0G 72M 2.8G 3% /config /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.3._usr 2.5G 1.9G 465M 81% /usr /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.3._var 3.0G 431M 2.4G 16% /var /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-dat.share.1 30G 6.0G 23G 22% /shared /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-dat.log.1 6.9G 163M 6.4G 3% /var/log none 24G 916K 24G 1% /dev/shm none 24G 41M 24G 1% /shared/rrd.1.2 none 24G 8.2M 24G 1% /var/tmstat none 24G 1.6M 24G 1% /var/run prompt 4.0M 28K 4.0M 1% /var/prompt none 24G 0 24G 0% /var/loipc /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-app.vcmp.dat.vmdisks 277G 23G 240G 9% /shared/vmdisks How should I interpret all thoses disk usage values to figure out the real explanation? Thanks for your help. Kind regards. SylvainSolved773Views0likes6Comments11.4.0 unable to import 3M-record external data-file
f5 BIG-IP LTM VE v11.4.0 ESXi VM allocated with 200 gb hdd , 16 gb ram System > File Management > Data Group File List > Import > point to 3M-record data-file on disk ( 216 MB ) receive error : " File upload failed, please check log file for details " I review all logs but don't see any entries related to data-file load. System > File Management > iFile List > Import > point to the same 3M-record file I receive the same error. Examining /var/log/ltm I see : err diskmonitor: 011d0004: Disk partition _root_ has only 0% free but the timestamp of this error does not coincide with my attempted file uploads. I assume _root_ refers to the Linux disk partition -- why would I receive an error showing 0% free ? In /var/log i see tmm , tmm1 , tmm2 , tmm3649Views0likes29CommentsHTTPS service port 8443
I'm running an Openstack Swift-Proxy-Server and I've got a request to do SSL offloading in BigIP LTM. From the application, the endpoint is SSL should terminate on BigIP LTM and the endpoint from BigIP LTM to Swift-Proxy-Server will be http://proxy.sample.com:8080. I can successfully list my containers and authenticate from Swift-Proxy and Authentication servers but when I browse URL cannot be found. I tried to change service port to 443 | HTTPS but got this ConnectionError: [Errno 111] Connection refused Is there a way that I could use service port 8443 and protocol HTTPS? Here is my VS config: Destination Address: 10.0.0.128 Service Port: 8443 | Others Protocol: TCP SSL Profile (Client): ssl_certificate SNAT POOL: Automap Address Translation: Enabled Port Translation: Enabled Source Port: Preserve Others is set to default Here is my Monitor config: Name: Monitor_8080 Type: TCP Alias Address: All Address Alias Service Port: 8080 Others is set to default Here is my POOL config: Health Monitors: Monitor_8080 Members: 10.0.0.129:8080 and 10.0.0.130:8080 Others is set to default641Views0likes2CommentsAutomated UCS Backup - Solarwinds NCM/NPM
Hi, I have (with the help of this forum) implemented our organisations F5 Bigip 2000 setup. Now comes the task of creating automated backups. We have solarwinds Orion NCM that we use for the backups of our Cisco and HP equipment. Is it possible to have NCM backup the UCS files on the bigip platform and if yes how would I go about doing it? If Not, our solarwinds server runs a stftp service. would it be possible to get the BigIP units to push their UCS files daily to our solarwinds archive server? Please appreciate that I am a f5 and Linux newbie, so if shell scripts are required a brief outline of what they do would be appreciated :) . Many Thanks Craig605Views0likes3Comments